Drawer-rack.



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DRAWER RACK- APPLICATION H150 FEB- 7. I914.

1,191,657. I PatentdJuly18,1916.

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FREDERICK BRADY, OF MIDDLETOWN, DELAWARE.

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Specification of Letters lat'ent.

Patented July 18, 1916.

Application fi1ei1 I:ebruary 7, 1914. Serial No. 817,243.

members of such a structure as that each forms a paper holder and may receive selected sizes of sheets and the like, and at the same time maintain the outer edges'of such sheets in substantially the same plane with the sheets of different sizes held by th other partition members.

A further object of my invention is to provide partition members so connected as that they may be held in a series within a drawer and remain at all tifnes freely removable and, when so removed, may be quickly and readily folded in compact form for transportation.

These and other objects and their resulting advantages will be apparent from the following description in which reference is made to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, and? in which- Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section through a drawer in which my improved rack is disposed. Fig. 2 is a side view of the rack reversed and folded. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective View of one of the inner partition members. Fig. 4 is a similar view of an outer partition member. Fig. 5 is a vertical longitudinal section through the lower portion of one of the partition members and its base strip, and Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view of one end portion of one of the base strips. 7

Referring now to these figures, my improved rack consists of a plurality of partition plates A, A and A which are disposed in parallel relation and connected at their upper and lower ends by strips B and B in such manner as that the several partition members may be moved to vertical positions in which they are spaced a maximum distance from one another, orto horizontal positions in which they are in close contact and form a compact folded structure, which will utilize a minimum space in packing for transportation and in which the several parts being in contact with one-another will mutually support one another and I prevent distortion or breakage. This lastmentioned posltlon is clearly shown in Fig. 2, and for purposes of use the several par- .tition members are opened and the structure after reversal may be disposed within a drawer, such as indicated generally at C in Fig. 1 to assume inclined positions, the lower end of the rearmost member A engaging the rear end of the drawer, and the upper end ofthe foremost partition member ;A engaging the forward end of the, drawer in order to support the rack therein.

To the end that the above connections may be conveniently made, I preferably construct each of the partition members of a section of sheet metal, the longitudinal side edges of which are bentoutwardly, forming flanges a therealong, which constitute the sides of the respective paper holding compartment. I also provide each of the partition members with series of key hole slots a adjacent opposite sides, with selected pairs'of which a basestripD may be associated, each base strip having an upwardly inclined flange d, and a pair of depending studs d, in the form of rivets having lower shoulders in order that they may be conveniently fitted into the said slots a in the manner best shown in Fig. 5. Each of these base strips necessarily causes the upper edges of the plurality of sheets in the particular compartment to be disposed in inclined relation, holding the upper sheet in most convenient position for removal.

The connecting strips '13 and B are pivadjacent the upper and lower ends thereof, a

' and it is o-be noted by comparison of the full and otted lines in Fig. 1 and of Figs.v 3 and 4, that the partition members, or one or more of them, may be curved from the upper to the lower edges thereof in order to adapt the same to the reception of sheets of greater length than it would be possible for them to contain or hold if straight and flat.

By adjustment of the base strip ID through the means before described, either whole or various sized sheets may be disposed upon the several partition members with the upper edges of the entire series of sheets in substantially the same plane adjacent to the upper ends of the partition members.

lhe rack proposed by my invention may be readily transferred from one drawer of a desk to another as the necessity for its transfer arises, will be simple and inexpensive to manufacture, and will be strong and durable in its use.

I claim A drawer rack comprising a plurality of partition plates each of which consists of a body provided flanges, strips pivotally connecting the side flanges of the plates adjacent the upper and lower ends whereby to permit the plates, to

with longitudinal"- side be folded or nested and to enable their disposition in variously inclined positions-within a drawer, each of said plates being provided with longitudinal side series of key hole slots and a base strip for each plate having depending and shouldered studs for engagement in selected key hole slots and having an upwardly projecting flange extending transversely across the partition plate and inclined toward the upper end of the latter, all for the purpose described.

FREDERICK BRADY.

Witnesses v .CATHARINE M. TOUHEY,

ANNA M. DENNY. 

